Improvement in business-cards



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Business-Cards. N0, 167,045.Y Patented Aug. 24,1875.

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Attal-nay UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,"

BAsIL MQWILKERsoN, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS-CARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. l 67,0115, datedAugust 24, 1875; application filed October 15, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BAsIL M. WrLKERsoN, of the city and county ofBaltimore, State of Maryland, have invented an Improvement invBusiness-Cards, a'nd in the means of preserv- -ing them for future use5 and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection withthe drawings which accompany and-form part of this specification, is adescription of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in theart to practice it.

The object of my invention is to furnish a business-card which iscapable of being instantly led conspicuously, and yet removable forfurther use, and which dispenses with theV cards made in accordance withmy invention,

and gummed at one end only on their backs, and applied by the gum to asimilar sheet of card-board by way 0f illustrating the simple mode offiling, which is attained by reason of making the card self-adhesive.

It will be seen that any number of cards may by this method be appliedone on top of the other, to any desired number, without occupying anymore area on the sheet or other article to which they may be appliedthan a single card requires, and that the whole series may be turnedback like the leaves of a book without risk of detaching', unlessdesired,

Y when any of them can be instantly torn away without detachin g therest; and to facilitate such removal I sometimes make them perfo ratedat one side or end, as shown at the line a b. They may be gummed at thesides instead of the ends, or at both ends, as shown at c in Fig. 2, orat-one or more or all of the corners,`as shown at d in Fig. 3, or at thecenter or elsewhere, as preferred; or in some cases when to remainpermanently aflixed to the for instancefall cards of dry-goods dealersin n one group, grocers in another, lawyers in another, &c.-as indicatedin Fig. l, thus preventing the. need of looking at random over a filedcard-rack at great Waste of time for a particular card, perhapstodiscover at last that it has been lost from its place and disappeared.

For professional men and others who have to make many engagements forcertain hours, days, and weeks in advance my invention is of greatconvenience, as I have learned from my own experience, and which hasprompted this invention.

Patients, especially those of a dentist, are very apt to forget the dayand hour assigned for their call, but upon his giving them, when theirengagement is iirst made, one of his self adhesive cards with the factand date of the engagement stated thereon, and with a request on itsgummed back to stick it up in a conspicuous place at home as a constantreminder, it assists to insure a prompt fullment of the engagement. Sucha card is shown in Fig. 4, both sides of it being displayed. All thematter may be printed in advance upon these cards, except the period ofthe engagement, thus saving the necessity of Writing particulars formany patients during the hurried hours of business. Y Another advantagein my invention is, that cards will be' much less likely to be wasted or`thrown away, as they can be so readily preserved when there is nocard-rack at hand by means of their self-adhering feature.

I am aware that postage-stamps and druggists labels have had their backsdry-gummed, in order that they might be permanently attached without anyneed'or intent of subsequent removal from the article to which they weresecured. Nor could they be so removed without damage or danger ofdestroying them,

as the thinness of the paperwould not perof its back between theperforations and its mit it. I do not therefore claim these. Nor edgedry-glimmed, substantially as and. for do I claim any novelty indry-gumming, broadthe purpose set forth.

1y; but BASIL M. WILKERSON.

I claim- Witnesses: A business or professional card perforated JAS. H.HARRIS,

near one of its edges, and having that partY OHAS. T. DAVIS.

